http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/ Engadget Comments for Apple iPad -- model A1337 -- phreaks the FCC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/It seems thats one of about 2 good points about buying this thing...
:P

Even so, how did this get to be classed as 'Breaking News'
the ipad has been confirmed for a while...
in fact...
i remember engadget producing a rather lot of articles on it...]]>Mar 12th 2010 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
The model number is the only thing leet about it

-jp
]]>Mar 12th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 13th 2010 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 15th 2010 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/"Wut?"
"Yeah, sorry. Our base r not belong to us anymore."]]>Mar 12th 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
The iPad is sooooooooooo 1337.]]>Mar 12th 2010 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
If MS gets the Courier out before the ipad gets a camera. Im getting the Courier. If the ipad gets a camera and apps that can do the same thing as the courier, then i will get the ipad. Ether way i have to wait.]]>Mar 12th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
Keep waiting for... the Courier to....exist..]]>Mar 13th 2010 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/If the *Courier* is ever able to do the things that the Courier proof-of-concept video shows it doing, I'll be amazed.

Remember the controller-less XBox concept video from 2004-2005? The one that finally saw a prototype last year in Project Natal (that is nowhere near shipping)? The game-changing features from Longhorn that slipped into nothingness? The Origami project, with its super-slick mockups that finally produced a handful of UMPCs, all of which bombed? Hell, even the Microsoft Tablet PC marketing videos were never actually accomplished. You got some pen input stuff and OneNote and they gave up doing anything else with it.

]]>Mar 13th 2010 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/I wonder when consumers start buying content-production-devices and use them mainly for the purpose of production, will they have turned into producers, and the consumer devices into investment?]]>Mar 13th 2010 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/I am a...
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Dell mini 5 fan!
Too...]]>Mar 12th 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/i prepare to be downranked...for irrelevancy and fanboyism... but i dont care, because the dell mini 5 pwns]]>Mar 12th 2010 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/There are tons of iPhone apps for content creation. Pretty safe to assume most will get full fledged iPad versions. Brushes created the art work for the cover of a major publication. Plenty of text editors, music tools, image manipulation tools, video manipulation tools, etc. iWork is capable of producing some pretty nice documents, spreadsheets, presentations which is also technically content creation. I think it's fair to argue the merits of the hardware for either task but clearly on the software side the iPhone/iPad has tons of content creation tools and quite a few really top notch ones. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/you are confusing novelty with actual capacity, see http://www.chemie.unibas.ch/~holder/JPG/time.jpg for where that gets you.]]>Mar 12th 2010 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
This is called Short-Term Confidentiality and ANYBODY applying for an FCC ID can opt for it. And any TCB will hold the Grant submission into the OET website at the request of the manufacturer. It's extremely common and easy to do, not just for "Cupertino". ]]>Mar 12th 2010 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
Maybe those other companies *want* their upcoming products to leak out early so people can start talking about them.]]>Mar 12th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Hello??
We have been following Apple's discrete breadcrumb trail to a tablet for near a decade... These guys are masters at PR, if nothing else.]]>Mar 12th 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
Agree, some companies like to keep it really tight. Others, as Michael Scrip suggests below, either don't care or even welcome the rumor mill. Apple is notorious for how paranoiac they are about their "secrets". I've met several Apple employees at training courses and seminars. A few months ago after a one-day course ended the organizers wanted to take a group photo of the attendees, and the Apple guys marched out of the room, saying that "they are not allowed to be photographed" (!!) and that "people go through their garbage" and stuff like that. :o ]]>Mar 12th 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
Exactly. The Courier looks great... for the tasks shown in the demo.

But, for the average person... who just wants to browse the web and check email... why have 2 screens? Wouldn't one bigger screen (iPad) be better?

I guess you can turn the Courier sideways and use the bottom screen as a touchscreen keyboard... kinda like a Nintendo DS. Then the Courier would act like a netbook... but it still wouldn't be one of those either.]]>Mar 12th 2010 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Isn't it were?]]>Mar 12th 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
A pair were...?]]>Mar 12th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
If it said 2 ipads, then "were" is appropriate since the subject is plural.]]>Mar 12th 2010 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/It's actually correct. A pair WAS. It's a single pair. Compare to the following sentences:

1. John and Marsha were at the dance club last night. The pair was seen dancing like there was no tomorrow.

2. John and Marsha were at the dance club last night. The pair were seen dancing like there was no tomorrow.

Number 1 is the correct one.]]>Mar 12th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/You might be correct, but the reasoning doesn't hold in British usage.
To my knowledge, both of the following are considered acceptable, each in their respective dialect:

1) The crowd is going wild. (AmE)
2) The crowd are going wild. (BrE)

Having said that, I'm not sure that the British English usage of plural verb forms in conjunction with collective nouns applies to pairs. It may be reserved for collections of indeterminate size. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
They is going wild.

Heh. English is silly.]]>Mar 12th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
Weeellll, as far as American English goes, we wouldn't use the pronoun 'they' for 'the crowd', opting instead for 'it'.

"The crowd is going wild."
"It is going wild."

It's not so much a matter of how we perceive the plurality as it's a matter of how we classify the noun itself. If you define a crowd as a "group of people", you're just being redundant. You then have to define group. At this point one might say "a bunch of people". You can keep this up forever. Eventually you have to break it down to just saying "people," with perhaps an adjective (ie., several people). But at that point, it would be silly to grammatically equate "several people" to "a crowd of people".

Er, I'm looking too far into this.

Americans automatically win cuz we know how to farking spell tire correctly! Nyah! *runs away*]]>Mar 12th 2010 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/A pair is singular, it's just defined as containing two objects. Same with things like "everyone was" or "every single one was". ]]>Mar 13th 2010 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
1) I wish that pair of iPads was shipped sooner.
2) I wish that pair of iPads were shipped sooner.

#2 :)]]>Mar 13th 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/
iPad = a real device that exists now, and is available to pre-order and will begin shipping in weeks.

Courier = a device that the alleged manufacturer has yet to confirm is being manufactured, and exists only in photographs and a concept video.

A cynic might suggest that the alleged manufacturer of the concept device is trying to put people off buying it's rival's device that is available now, by showcasing more sophisticated functionality.

Until I see an actual product, pricing, a developer SDK and a shipping date for the Courier, I'll stick with what's already out there.]]>Mar 12th 2010 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/

But as for now, please go back to 4chan.]]>Mar 12th 2010 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 12th 2010 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-ipad-model-a1337-phreaks-the-fcc/Mar 13th 2010 6:03AM